It is not intellect but brute instinct and brute force that will help humanity in such a crisis as the present.

Therefore, let me tell you, my child, that a government of intellectual men is the worst possible government for a nation engaged in a war." This was far from satisfying Miss Armytage.

Lord Wellington himself was an intellectual, she objected.

Nobody could deny it.

There was the work he had done as Irish Secretary, and there was the calculating genius he had displayed at Vimeiro, at Oporto, at Talavera.
And then, observing her husband to be in distress, Lady O'Moy put down her fashion plate and brought up her heavy artillery to relieve him.
"Sylvia, dear," she interpolated, "I wonder that you will for ever be arguing about things you don't understand." Miss Armytage laughed good-humouredly.